Our final days in Cape Town

On Sunday 30 March, it was good bye Cape Town

Even in Cape Town the sun doesnt always shine and a cool breeze with a few rain drops moved across the city, heralding the beginning of autum at the Cape. Still, we were blessed with lovely warm sunny hours, and made the most of our final days in town by visiting the weekly fisherman's harbour festival at Hout Bay that you could already smell miles away. The next day, we drove to a Sunday street party at the colourful and lively black township of Gugulethu - a fantastic experience but not for the faint hearted. Big pieces of unrecognizable meat were sold at market stalls, then taken a few meters across the road to a guy with a big grill, and finally eaten with bare hands whilst standing on the road, dancing to music into the Sunday sunset. We also drove to the lush and lavish wine lands of Paarl and Stellenbosch, with beautifully landscaped wine estates and their gardens, where people relax with a glass of local wine and have an all-day-picknick with friends and family, whilst enjoying the fantastic views of rolling hills and wine yards for miles.  Still, a very white dominated business with big sometimes excessive architecture in my view bordering on decadence in many cases. 

We finished off our stay in Cape Town with a bright sunny day at Camps Bay, playing beach volleyball with the local crowd who we befriended over the weeks. Thanks Dennis, Sarah, Sean, Willy, Andrea and Nico. 

more photos here https://picasaweb.google.com/110475049385279629687/CapeTown22014?authkey=Gv1sRgCICz5d2NzZ7EJA&noredirect=1

The next stage of our African adventure were 2000 kilometres of exotic coast line, forest, rivers and bushland up the garden route and all the way to St Lucia, just south of the boarder to Mozambique. We started on Sunday 30 March and arrived 2600 kilometres later in Johannesburg on Wednesday 9 April. A detailed summery will follow soon.